#dishing liquid

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The Glass Coffin Mocktail! In honor of my most beloved and favorite Saw trap 5ever :)

[th3-0bjectivist]

“Petri Dish” - Acrylic paint on canvas

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[jungwookjins]

feel free to tag ur reasoning and/or where ur from/cultural bg

[witchofthesouls]

Cybertronians vs kudzu

Who would win. Aliens or very invasive plants?

Cybertronians will win the battle, but they'll lose the war.

It's one thing to comprehend that plants grow fast, it's another thing to witness it.

If Cybertron ever establishes a sister city or university on Earth, then many Cybertronians will flock over to study applied agricultural sciences because someone at some point had managed to successfully crossbreed a potato with a Cybertronian one that feeds on their planet's radiation.

Someone needs to save Cybertron's soul if a well-meaning idiot takes something like kudzu or mint and manages to get viable crossbreeds on the metal planet.

[brood-mother]

since we're heading back into bug season after another warm wet winter, if you're overrun with tiny fruit flies/black gnats again this year, put out a bowl or ramekin of malt vinegar beside your sink/drain/trash/problem area and they'll drown themselves en masse. some ppl say mix it with dish soap or whatever else but i find it works best with just vinegar (i think some soap scents put the gnats off). works better than any store bought fly trap i've tried.

[puppyeared]

puppy you are insane for wanting to put ice cubes in your milk!!!!! unacceptable!!!!! it melts and then thins the milk and then it mels some more and then you;re not longer drinking milk it;s just milk flavoured water!!!!!! /lh

i bet you use water to make your hot chocolate (also highly unacceptable) (booooo)

-brainrotbot

i was witness to @crow-cap slapping hot sauce on an orange for "character immersion" purposes so i think i have reason to believe putting ice in milk wouldnt be out of the question /j

[heteroflexiblecastiel]

Pro Tip™️ for those dining out:

you may feel an urge, at the end of your meal, to help the server/busser by tidying up the table - stacking dishes, gathering trash, etc

you may, in the course of so doing, see an opportunity to..... consolidate all of your dirtied paper napkins, straw wrappers, and other such items of garbage

you may feel called to........... deposit said items into a Cup. a Glass. a Beverage Container. just to have it all in one place! how handy!

that's the devil talking.

[16woodsequ]

Sunday Steve - Day Twelve

Things that would be new or unfamiliar to Steve in the 21st century, either due to the time period he grew up in, or his social-economic status and other such factors.

Day Twelve: Soap

One day I was looking at a bottle of dishsoap and I wondered, would Steve have used this? So I looked it up. Liquid soap was patented in 1865 but "despite its popularity throughout the early to middle 1900’s, it wasn’t until 1980 that liquid soap became mass-produced for domestic use." (Link)

From what I've found liquid soap was not that commonly used. There were liquid shampoos in the 20s but many people used shampoo powder or liquified grated soap bars.

It's the same for other soap. Laundry soap and dishsoap came in powders and soap bars. Below you can see a box of soap flakes shown to be used for both laundry and dishes.

Soap flakes sold for 10 cents circa 1929

Here are some more laundry soap options we covered in the laundry post.

Laundry soap options in 1927. They included purchasing flakes, chips, or powder; liquifying your soap ahead of time(right); and (left) grating your own laundry soap from a bar. Fels Naptha soap, which came in a big bar, was rubbed on difficult stains and rings around the collar. (Link)

Liquidizing the soap entails taking soap shavings and dissolving it into boiling water. The liquid would then be poured into laundry water to be used. If left over night the soap re-solidifies.

For dishes another option besides powders or flakes is a soap shaker. This blog discusses early 20th century dishwashing, showing things like soap shakers and dish scrapers. Looks like one could use a soap shaker to more easily get suds from a bar of soap.

Modern soap shaker reproduction (Link).

But what about public bathrooms?

Most public bathrooms nowadays use liquid soap, and if liquid soap wasn't so common, what did they use?

It's possible some bathrooms used bars of soap it's not very easy to find information about that online. What I can find that is soap dispensers that dispensed powdered soap!

There's this one that had a crank to push the soap forward to an opening. Another type of seemed to have a lever/button press to dispense soap. Some styles shave off soap bars inside the canister as well.

I've never experienced these types of dispensers but looking online a lot of people seem to remember them growing up.

1940s era bathroom experienced in the 70s:

They were very simple -- white plaster walls with a wooden partition painted dark green, a painted concrete floor, and a plain white wall-mounted toilet. The sinks had cold water only, and over each sink was mounted a metal Boraxo dispenser -- Boraxo was a dry, gritty, powdered soap, and the dispenser was a sort of mechanical sifter with a lever that hung down below. You'd bang on the lever and a small amount of the powder would sift out. The towel dispensers gave out rough folded-red-paper towels

Circa 1936 powdered soap dispenser with crank handle. Note is says "pure dry cake soap ground into powder as you use it without any waste". So this dispenser seems to ground soap cakes (bars) into powder itself.

The video below is an example of push button powdered soap dispenser. Some dispensers have labels suggested to wet the hand first before using the soap. (37 sec video).

I have also seen people talk about soap leaves being available in women's bathrooms. The soap leaf booklets could also be carried around in a purse and used by the owner at their convenience.

You can see in this accessory pack that at least some soldiers were provided with soap leaf packets to use during World War Two.

In conclusion

It is unlikely Steve would be used to using liquid soap. From what I could find liquid soap, and especially the liquid hand soap dispensers, were not popular until the 80s (this seems to be partially because of the difficulty of developing a pump soap dispenser for liquid soap, so that would also be new for him.) I think the prevalence of liquid soap would surprise him as soap is so basic you don't really expect it to change but basically the whole experience of soap has changed for him.

Also, fun fact! Soap operas are called that because when they rose to popularity in the 20-30s they were regularly sponsored by soap companies!

[innalheid]

Lavender. Matcha. I love salted caramel. Maybe a booze flavour? I did make a slappin banana rum caramel at school. Kinda wanna do a panacotta layer. Best panacotta I had at school was either the fancy citrus one OR the earl grey that we topped w kiwi . Earl grey n kiwi is so fucking good. Earl grey and LAVENDER go well together. What about lav + kiwi? I also got to use sakura powder last time I was at my boyfriend's - that slapped As Well. Tho it's kinda a pretty generic Sweet taste. I need things to be Interesting. Nuts are fuckin expensive. If I'm gonna do an entremet then I should really think of the individual layers. Is it even possible to do a panacotta layer in an entremet? ....yes, cuz you can freeze panacotta. okay. easy. cool. I wish I could separate myself into two so I could do a full consult with myself this is hard ffs

[scribefindegil]

hello!! you are the resident mushroom enthusiast on my dash, and i got 2 pints of pink oyster mushrooms that i need to consume this week somehow. do you have any tips?

The great thing about oysters is that once they're cooked they freeze really well, so if you have more mushrooms than you can eat a great thing to do is make duxelles! Chop the mushrooms up and saute them with a good amount of butter or olive oil, some salt and pepper and additional seasonings of your choice (I love thyme with oysters!), some finely chopped onion or shallot, and a glug of white wine or sherry if you feel like it until parts of the mushrooms are starting to brown. Then you can freeze individual portions and reheat them later to mix into pasta dishes, risottos, omelettes, or to have on toast!

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Aaand here's the other clip I have of Dr. Facilier's Sam's animations!

[cannibalkissies]

I'm having the worst health issues this month ;~;

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